Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by composer Soosan Lolavar and pianist Joanna MacGregor, who ...
ON STAGE in a medieval banqueting hall, a poet invokes the sea. The waves spawn “endless beginnings”, stories of change and movement, love and death; ancient myths dissolve and reform in her words, ...
MacGregor, Head of Piano at the RAM and director of the Dartington summer school, has told me in an interview of her admiration for the peerless Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer. Indeed, Fischer’s ...
Composed during the liberation of Paris in 1944 for Yvonne Loriod (soon to be the composer’s wife), the work has 20 movements. As MacGregor’s excellent and accessible programme notes advise, “each ...
On Fridays, Performance Today often takes a walk down the classical-music path less taken. This "Classical Detour" is a ride down pianist Joanna MacGregor's "Lost Highway." That's the title of her ...
Luis Gasca was one of the hottest trumpet players in California during the 1970s, recording a handful of albums fueled by the drugs, the culture, and the excitement of that time and place. Though they ...
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by composer Soosan Lolavar and pianist Joanna MacGregor, who surveys recordings of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2. Show more Andrew McGregor ...